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Subject: Re: fdisk: class not found
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On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pietro Cerutti wrote:

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> Saifi Khan wrote:
> | Hi all:
> Hi Saifi,
> 
> | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the
> | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot.
> |
> | Should we write new partition table ? [n] y
> | fdisk: Class not found
> |
> | When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table.
> |
> | What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ?
> 
> This comes from geom. See geom(8).
> 

Hi Pietro:

Does this imply, geom_mbr needs to be loaded, if one is using
the Fixit# (DVD/Live) console ?


thanks
Saifi.